The E P I Instructions

Here are some questions regarding the way you behave, feel and act. After each question is a space for
answering YES or NO.
Try to decide whether YES or NO represents your usual way of acting or feeling. Then put a tick in the box
under the column headed YES or NO. Work quickly, and don’t spend too much time over any question, we
want your first reaction, not a long drawn-out thought process. The whole questionnaire shouldn’t take
more than a few minutes. Be sure not to omit any questions.
Start now, work quickly and remember to answer every question. There are no right or wrong answers, and
this isn’t a test of intelligence or ability, but simply a measure of the way you behave.
YES NO
1 Do you often long for excitement? YES
2 Do you often need understanding friends to cheer you up? NO
3 Are you usually carefree? YES
4 Do you find it very hard to take no for an answer? YES
5 Do you stop and think things over before doing anything? NO
6 If you say you will do something do you always keep your promise, no matter how inconvenient it might be to
do so? NO
7 Do your moods go up and down? YES
8 Do you generally do and say things quickly without stopping to think? YES
9 Do you ever feel ‘just miserable’ for no good reason? YES
10 Would you do almost anything for a dare? NO
11 Do you suddenly feel shy when you want to talk to an attractive stranger? YES
12 Once in a while do you lose your temper and get angry? YES
13 Do you often do things on the spur of the moment? YES
14 Do you often worry about things you should have done or said? YES
15 Generally do you prefer reading to meeting people? YES
16 Are your feelings rather easily hurt? YES
17 Do you like going out a lot? YES
18 Do you occasionally have thoughts and ideas that you would not like other people to know about? NO
19 Are you sometimes bubbling over with energy and sometimes very sluggish? YES
20 Do you prefer to have few but special friends? YES
21 Do you daydream a lot? NO
22 When people shout at you do you shout back? NO
23 Are you often troubled about feelings of guilt? NO
24 Are all your habits good and desirable ones? NO
25 Can you usually let yourself go and enjoy yourself a lot at a lively party? NO
26 Would you call yourself tense or ‘highly strung’? NO
27 Do other people think of you as being very lively? YES
28 After you have done something important, do you come away feeling you could have done better? YES
29 Are you mostly quiet when you are with other people? YES
30 Do you sometimes gossip? YES
31 Do ideas run through your head so that you cannot sleep?NO
32 If there is something you want to know about, would you rather look it up in a book than talk to someone about
it?NO
33 Do you get palpitations or thumping in your hear?NO
34 Do you like the kind of work that you need to pay close attention to? NO
35 Do you get attacks of shaking or trembling?NO
36 Would you always declare everything at customs, even if you knew you could never be found out? NO
37 Do you hate being with a crowd who play jokes on one another? YES
38 Are you an irritable person? NO
39 Do you like doing things in which you have to act quickly? YES
40 Do you worry about awful things that might happen? YED
41 Are you slow and unhurried in the way you move? NO
42 Have you ever been late for an appointment or work? YES
43 Do you have many nightmares? NO
44 Do you like talking to people so much that you never miss a chance of talking to a stranger? NO
45 Are you troubled by aches and pains?NO
46 Would you be very unhappy if you could not see lots of people most of the time? YES
47 Would you call yourself a nervous person? NO
48 Of all the people you know, are there some whom you definitely do not like? YES
49 Would you say that you were fairly self-confident? YES
50 Are you easily hurt when people find fault with you or your work? NO
51 Do you find it hard to really enjoy yourself at a lively party?YES
52 Are you troubled by feelings of inferiority? NO
53 Can you easily get some life into a dull party? NO
54 Do you sometimes talk about things you know nothing about? YES
55 Do you worry about your health? YES
56 Do you like playing pranks on others? YES
57 Do you suffer from sleeplessness? NO